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10
Ways Marijuana Can Help Cancer Patients

Marijuana can offer a wide range of benefits
to patients with cancer, as a recent study from Israel found.

Most
recognize medical marijuana to be helpful for cancer patients in some way or
another.

Yet
marijuana’s legal status has prevented researchers in many countries from
providing thorough evidence. Instead, scientists are limited to studying the
effects of chemicals isolated from marijuana (called cannabinoids), which
misses the full picture.

Thankfully,
cannabis research is taking off in Israel, where medical marijuana is legal.
Just this year, a study involving 200 cancer patients found medical
marijuana use led to “significant improvements” across “all” cancer and cancer
treatment-related symptoms.

Here’s
a list of 10 ways that marijuana helped patients in the study:

1. Nausea and Vomiting

Marijuana
may be best known for its ability to reduce nausea and vomiting caused by
chemotherapy. It’s so effective that a pill form of THC (Marinol) has been
approved by the FDA for treating chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting since
1985.

2. Weight Loss

Along
with nausea, patients undergoing chemotherapy often find it hard to maintain
normal weight. Thankfully, marijuana has been shown to not only relieve nausea,
but stimulate appetite as well. For patients with cancer, marijuana can help
improve food intake and prevent unhealthy loss of weight.

3. Mood

Cancer
patients often suffer from mood disorders such as depression. While it’s no
secret that marijuana makes users feel good, research seems to explain why. As
many studies have found, chemicals in marijuana appear to have significant anti-anxiety and antidepressant effects.

4. Pain

Another
well-known effect of marijuana is pain relief. And while its benefits seem to
span a range of chronic pain disorders, studies show that marijuana can help reduce pain in
cancer as well.

5. Sleep

Patients
with cancer often suffer from sleep problems, including difficulty falling
asleep and maintaining sleep. On the other hand, sleepiness is one of
marijuana’s most commonly reported side effects. THC has also been shown to improve sleep in patients undergoing
chemotherapy.

6. Fatigue

Cancer-related
fatigue can also cause patients to feel sleepy during the day. Interestingly,
marijuana seems
to help patients combat
daytime fatigue, while at the same time helping patients get to sleep at night.
It’s multi-faceted effect on sleep may depend on the strain of marijuana and
the balance
of cannabinoids that they contain.

7. Sexual Function

Sexual
dysfunction is a common, yet lesser known effect of cancer and cancer
therapies. While findings are inconsistent, marijuana has a long
history of use as an
aphrodisiac, dating back at least 3,000 years to ancient India.

8. Constipation

Chemicals
in marijuana help regulate the digestive system and have been suggested as a treatment for a wide range of bowel
disorders. While marijuana seems to help by reducing bowel
movements in inflammatory bowel
disorders, it appears to have an opposite effect in constipation.

9. Itching

Itching
can be a side effect of various cancers as well as various cancer treatments.
While the underlying causes of itching in cancer patients vary, marijuana seems
to help some patients deal
with this irritating symptom.

10. Cancer

Perhaps
the most promising (and controversial) benefit of marijuana in cancer is the
treatment of cancer itself. While preclinical
studies have long supported
the ability of marijuana to kill cancer cells and stop the disease from
spreading, the medical community points out that human research is lacking.